Hi,

I have been using KDevelop and kdevelop-python for a few months now, with good success. However, after upgrading KDevelop from 4.5 to 4.6 yesterday, all python support seems to have vanished from the IDE. I still get some syntax highlighting, about as much as I would in kate, but that's it. It's like the plugin is just not installed, (It's not listed under Settings -> Configure KDevelop -> Plugins, either.) Recompiling and reinstalling kdevelop-python does not help, either.

I am using Gentoo, btw, installing both KDevelop and kdevelop-python via Gentoo's portage. The version of kdevelop-python I'm using is 1.5.2.

Does anybody know what's going wrong here or have some pointers where I could look further?

I just found out that if I change X-KDevelop-Version from 15 to 16 in /usr/share/kde4/services/kdevpdb.desktop and /usr/share/kde4/services/kdevpythonsupport.desktop, python support will be loaded again. However, somehow I don't think this is really a solution…

For one thing, I'm manually editing a file managed by my package manager (not a good idea in general) and for another, this kinda feels like I'm manually overriding some kind of ABI compatibility check.

this kinda feels like I'm manually overriding some kind of ABI compatibility check.

Yes, you do. There's a 1.6 version of kdev-python, which is what you should use with kdevplatform 1.6 (KDevelop 4.6). If you build from sources, update -- if you installed it from packages, update the package, or blame your distribution for not providing 1.6 packages.

Greetings!